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Saturday Night Live

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Saturday Night Live took advantage of the immediacy of live television to offer satiric commentary on the news. Shortly after Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s account of the end of the Nixon presidency, The Final Days, was released, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi lampooned its depiction of the night before Nixon’s resignation when the president summoned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the Lincoln Room and kneeled with him to pray.
<em>Saturday Night Live</em> took advantage of the immediacy of live television to offer satiric commentary on the news. Shortly after Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s account of the end of the Nixon presidency, <em>The Final Days,</em> was released, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi lampooned its depiction of the night before Nixon’s resignation when the president summoned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the Lincoln Room and kneeled with him to pray.